esyllt carr has more. this is the last time alexandra and herfamily saw her sister, three years ago. they have spent £4,000 to fly to her wedding in the states next week. but despite paying to have their passport applications checked 11 weeks ago, alexandra had to send in an extra birth certificate and is still waiting on two passports, including her li month old son s. i have my bridesmaid, dress the tailor has told me that my dress is ready to collect and i am frustrated. i m excited for her wedding and i want to be excited and is trying to keep my worst case scenario in the back of my mind. iamjust i am just constantly waiting for a
call from the passport office. the home office is advising the passport applications are taking up to ten weeks to process, but they say it can take longer if any information is incomplete. since the uk left the eu, a passport has to be less than ten years old to enter the country, as well as others like norway and switzerland, so you have to check the issue date as well as expiry. now most places in europe require you to have at least three months left on your passport beyond your trip. at the passport office in london, we met people trying to get the right documents. i had london, we met people trying to get the right documents. london, we met people trying to get the right documents. i had not heard an hino the right documents. i had not heard anything about the right documents. i had not heard anything about this, the right documents. i had not heard anything about this, they the right documents. i had not heard anything about this, they should - anything about this, they sh
esyllt carr, has more. this was the last time alexandra and herfamily saw her sister, three years ago. they have spent £4,000 to fly to her wedding in the states next week. but despite paying to have all their passport applications checked 11 weeks ago, alexandra had to send in an extra birth certificate and is still waiting on two passports, including her four month old son s. i ve got my bridesmaids dress. the tailor has just told me today that my dress is ready to collect. i m frustrated. i can t let my children get excited, i don t want to get excited myself. i don t want to stress my sister out, who obviously wants to be excited for her wedding, wants to be excited to see us. i m just trying to keep the worst case scenario in the back of our minds, because i m just waiting for a call from the passport office constantly. the home office is advising that passport applications are taking up
along, the date, but then you have no guests. it really has to happen on that date. enjoying precious time with arti, amit and lucia have been living in australia for the last year. both british citizens, they applied for his passport five weeks ago. the application has now been approved, but the fear is it won t arrive in time for theirflight back to the uk in three weeks. the passport office says it s recruited an extra 500 staff to cope with a huge surge in passport applications after the pandemic and is advising people to allow ten weeks to apply for a passport. but, as lucia points out, you cant plan for when you baby will be born. a lot of these passport applications are for first baby s passports. you can t always control exactly when they are going to arrive. i mean, this guy was two weeks late, so that ate into our very precious application time. today, good news for arti,
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